第三章:计划出问题了(5)
Camicazi and Snotlout fired arrows at the swooping horrors as they clung desperately to the tilting island of ice, bucking and speeding madly down the river like an out of control sleigh ride. Inexplicably, Hurricane, the riding-dragon, was still fast asleep.
The roar of the waterfall downstream got louder and louder, growing into a great watery din of noise, and even in the night air they could see a billowing mist of spray swelling up above the forest ahead, like clouds from a smoking volcano.
The waterfall was very close now. One more bend and they would be rocketing over the edge.
Hiccup and Fishlegs caused chaos and confusion by shooting at the attacking dragons from the back of the all-but-invisible Deadly Shadow. But the dragons were attacking in such nightmare numbers that it would be mere minutes before they overwhelmed the raft.
NE-OOOOW! Another Razorwing leapt from the rocky riverbank, and landed with an evil vulture grin and a scrape of razored wings on the other end of the ice-island, tipping it downwards so violently that it was practically submerged.
The roar of the waterfall downstream got louder and louder, growing into a great watery din of noise, and even in the night air they could see a billowing mist of spray swelling up above the forest ahead, like clouds from a smoking volcano.
The waterfall was very close now. One more bend and they would be rocketing over the edge.
Hiccup and Fishlegs caused chaos and confusion by shooting at the attacking dragons from the back of the all-but-invisible Deadly Shadow. But the dragons were attacking in such nightmare numbers that it would be mere minutes before they overwhelmed the raft.
NE-OOOOW! Another Razorwing leapt from the rocky riverbank, and landed with an evil vulture grin and a scrape of razored wings on the other end of the ice-island, tipping it downwards so violently that it was practically submerged.